Create dmg installer with $HOME/Application folder
dmg, home-directory, installation, macos, packagemaker
Solution
You can do this if you specify:
path to applications folder from user domain
so in your script it could be like this:
set appHome to path to applications folder from user domain
make new alias file at container window to appHome with properties {name:"Applications"}
*when using path to applications folder from user domain `POSIX file` is not needed.
Problem
I have created script for application installation into root Application folder (/Application), but I'm not able to create the same one for user home folder $HOME/Application (~/Application). Here is my script ``` #!/bin/sh #http://stackoverflow.com/questions/96882/how-do-i-create-a-nice-looking-dmg-for-mac-os-x-using-command-line-tools set -o verbose #echo onset +o verbose #echo off # Note: this must run on a Mac APP_NAME="XXX" OUT_MAC=out/ DMG_PATH=${OUT_MAC}${APP_NAME}.dmg DMG_CONTENT_PATH=${OUT_MAC}contents BUNDLE_PATH=${DMG_CONTENT_PATH}/${APP_NAME}.app #clean old dmg if exist rm -rf ${DMG_PATH} SetFile -a B "${BUNDLE_PATH}" hdiutil create -srcfolder ${DMG_CONTENT_PATH} -volname ${APP_NAME} -fs HFS+ \ -fsargs "-c c=64,a=16,e=16" -format UDRW -size 550m ${DMG_PATH}.temp.dmg device=$(hdiutil attach -readwrite -noverify -noautoopen "${DMG_PATH}".temp.dmg | \ egrep '^/dev/' | sed 1q | awk '{print $1}') osascript <<EOT tell application "Finder" tell disk "${APP_NAME}" open set current view of container window to icon view set toolbar visible of container window to false set statusbar visible of container window to false set the bounds of container window to {200, 100, 900, 530} set theViewOptions to the icon view options of container window set arrangement of theViewOptions to snap to grid set icon size of theViewOptions to 96 set background picture of theViewOptions to file ".background:installer_dmg_bg.png" make new alias file at container window to POSIX file "/Applications" with properties {name:"Applications"} delay 1 set position of item "${APP_NAME}" of container window to {200, 200} set position of item "Applications" of container window to {500, 200} -- update without registering applications delay 5 -- eject end tell end tell EOT chmod -Rf go-w "/Volumes/${APP_NAME}" sync sync hdiutil detach ${device} sync hdiutil convert "${DMG_PATH}".temp.dmg -format UDZO -imagekey zlib-level=9 -o ${DMG_PATH} rm -rf "${DMG_PATH}".temp.dmg ``` I tried changing make new alias file at container window to POSIX file "/Applications" with properties {name:"Applications"} to make new alias file at container window to POSIX file "~/Applications" with properties {name:"Applications"} and make new alias file at container window to POSIX file "$HOME/Applications" with properties {name:"Applications"} but no luck!